Just updated my website with my latest story published @fictivedream.bsky.social This was out in August, 2025. saraspunyfingers.com/2026/02/01/b...

I should be writing/editing, but all I want to do is absorb some of the beauty spilled here by amazing writers. Thanks to everyone who writes and publishes great pieces.

"Trees have to rehearse being quiet or they creak too much." Oof! J.M.C. Kane @welkinprize.bsky.social:

Love this! What an impactful piece! @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social @welkinprize.bsky.social :

Just finished reading all 670 pages of “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny”—a marvel that encompasses love, longing, familial obligations, cultural limitations, and much more! Besides, Sunny and Sonia, the book is replete with other unforgettable characters and a surfeit of quote-worthy lines.

Read @anibanerjee.bsky.social @welkinprize.bsky.social:

Wonderful! @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @welkinprize.bsky.social:

I return to my draft every morning, tending to it like a baby that doesn't cry or demand time and attention. Just waits. Wasn't sure before, but I am in love with it.

“Now, in the hush before morning, I recall its branches, light threading through them— a secret passed from leaf to leaf.” Sam Aureli @chestnutreview.bsky.social :

"You’re here, Avi, in my home and my imagination gets unleashed. I imagine we’d fled, pursued music together. I imagine you’ve placed your arm around me. I imagine holding your callused hands." The amazing @sudhab.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social:

Sharing my piece “Alley Huddle” published in the wonderful Milk Candy Review last year. It’s winter once again.

“I watch him speak and wonder how long ago he stopped being the man I love.” @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @lostballoon.bsky.social:

“We measured the police sirens in little droppers and mixed them into our flasks of music, dancing with teeth bared.” Vaneeza Sohail in “Party Song” @smokelong.bsky.social:

“But by the time I grew up, I had jumped out of my dream. I didn’t see the point in why God should be happy with so much bloodshed.” Love this piece by Rahad Abir @theforge.bsky.social. Do spare a minute to read it.

“C’mere she says and you know it’s a mistake, you know you gonna regret it” The one-and-only @mynachang.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute!

Loving everything about this book!

Happy New Year to all my friends here! Hoping to catch up on writing news and stories published by everyone. Also hoping to write something share-worthy! :)

Can't wait for this event tonight! Hope to see you all there!

Registered to attend AWP 2026 in Baltimore. My first time ever, and I'm super excited!! #awp2026

Thanks for doing this for my book, @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social! Thanks @danbillyc.bsky.social for sharing the love here.

I have a new story "Biryani Fridays" in the lovely @fictivedream.bsky.social Would love for you all to read it. #fiction #shortstory #writingcommunity

#PoetryMoment "An Octopus Has Three Whole Hearts" by Joy Sullivan from Instructions for Traveling West Dial Press, 2024

“Memory leaks through scent, through skin.” @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social

A poem I wrote a few years ago. Those who can call or be with their dads, please make every effort to do so.

"My porch stood inundated with carnations and casseroles I left to rot, the stench seeping into the foyer." My micro "Fortune Cookie" published in @centaurlit.bsky.social: centaurlit.com/fortune-cook...

"The pockets of her dress grew heavy with skeletons, darkened with wet." @jadjosey.bsky.social @soflopojo.bsky.social:

It’s Wednesday. The Smokey deadline is midnight, NYC, Saturday. It’s time to step away from that comma, now. That’s right. Eaaaasy does it. No, I don’t know if it should “maybe be an em-dash”. Did you drink water today? You seem to have an olive in your hair. C’mon. That story is DONE. Send it.

“He knows her story…. has vowed never to comment, never to leave her exposed. It’s how the marriage works.” Love this one by @karenschauber.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute:

Thanks for publishing my story, Brett! I’ll appreciate you all reading “Binary Stars” in Ghost Parachute:

Many thanks to our FlashFlood editors: @kazbarwrites.bsky.social @saraschansarkar.bsky.social @coffeeandpaneer.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @lunchontuesday.bsky.social @judiwalsh.bsky.social @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social @scooterwriter.bsky.social @amygcb.bsky.social & Cassandra Parkin

Congratulations @sfreligh.bsky.social!

The best news for this weekend! BSF 2025 nomination by @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social for my story “Know Another Culture.”

“And it never mattered that you said you were holding the bike steady, even though I knew you weren’t. “ Love this, Sumitra! @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @theforge.bsky.social:

Loving it, @tarazambrano.bsky.social!

Thanks for including my story “The Caged Budgerigars” in your list @ashvalewrites.bsky.social:

“Was my mother as tired before I arrived? Was my father still brave then” @thorntonforreal.bsky.social @cincinnatireview.bsky.social:

"They unnest me, remake me, wake me alive & crow whole. Then they send me back home on two stumbling feet" @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social @pitheadchapel.bsky.social:

Thanks @danbillyc.bsky.social!

Thanks @melostrom.bsky.social!

Don't miss this sci-fi by @mynachang.bsky.social @naturefutures.bsky.social: